Swinging on a Birch Tree

published 1867

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving on newsprint

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 14.8 x 9.3 cm (5 13/16 x 3 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 21.9 x 13.6 cm (8 5/8 x 5 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1986.31.232

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Foster 1936, no. 218

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Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1936

  • Foster, Allen Evarts. "A check list of illustrations by Winslow Homer in 'Harper's Weekly' and other periodicals." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 40 (1936): 842-852. Separately published New York: New York Public Library, 1936.

1969

  • Gelman 1969, no.160.

1977

  • Kelsey 1977, no.145.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: HW; lower center: SWINGING ON A BIRCH-TREE.; lower left: Drawn by Winslow Homer.]; lower right: [See Swinging on a Birch-Tree, page 355.

Wikidata ID

Q74073501

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